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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2128690, member: 1414"] It is typical. Your larger points were mostly accurate in my view. But as I've said before, we've got no options here but to ride this out and hope Ollie (and Dave B as appropriate) make the needed changes. We just ate $3M from an underwater athletics budget to get rid of Diaco. But there we had a clear upgrade path, and a guy who came in a little light on the salary side. With Ollie....there's nobody who is a clear upgrade who would consent to come here, and even if they would, the cost in buyout and new salary would swamp the whole department. Ollie has some issues to work through, but the changes I'm seeing encourage me if only because they suggest that he recognizes it. The man isn't a quitter and doesn't accept failure. Next season absolutely is critical, and I agree that his ability to recruit if we miss the tournament again will plummet. The simple reality we need to wake up to is that like Gonzaga basketball and Boise State football, UConn basketball will get plenty of attention as long as our name shows up on the Top 25 ticker rolling at the bottom of ESPN. When it's not, we fall off the radar completely, because nobody cares about this conference. We can't afford to lose. [/QUOTE]